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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 257

(x) Three: Able Seaman J. Brooks, Royal Navy
Egypt 1882-89, undated, no clasp (J. Brooks, Boy 1 Cl. H.M.S. Turquoise.); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (121095 James Brooks, Comd. Boatn., H.M. Coast Guard.); Khedive's Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, light pitting from Star, edge bruise to LS&GC, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3)

121095 Able Seaman James Brooks, born Somerset, December 1866; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, October 1882; transferred to H.M.S. Turquoise, October 1884, and served during the Egyptian Campaign; advanced Able Seaman; transferred to HM Coastguard, December 1895; awarded L.S. & G.C., 3.2.1909; discharged dead as a result of pneumonia at Dawlish Coastguard Station, 13.1.1910.

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